BILL ANALYSIS �
AB 2016
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2016 (Campos)
As Amended August 19, 2014
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |61-2 |(May 28, 2014) |SENATE: |28-0 |(August 21, |
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Original Committee Reference: ED.
SUMMARY : Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to
consider including age-appropriate content on sexual abuse and
sexual assault awareness and prevention in the next revision of
the health content standards. Specifically, this bill :
1)Requires the SPI to recommend and the SBE to consider
including age-appropriate content for kindergarten and grades
1-12, inclusive, in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness
and prevention in the next revision of the adopted health
content standards.
2)Requires the SBE, upon the recommendation of the Instructional
Quality Commission (IQC) to consider including information in
sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in
Health Framework for California Public Schools when next
revised.
3)Permits school districts, county offices of education, and
charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction
pursuant to these adopted content standards, as specified.
4)Requires a pupil, upon the written request of his or her
parent or legal guardian, to be excused from receiving
instruction in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and
prevention.
The Senate amendments :
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1)Make technical and non-substantive changes to this section.
2)Delete the date by with the SPI and SBE must consider adopting
the specified content standards.
3)Specify that the specified content shall be considered for
adoption in the next revision of the existing Health Content
Standards.
4)Require the IQC rather than the SPI to recommend information
on sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in
the Health Framework for California.
5)Delete the requirement that content standards be considered
for transitional kindergarten.
6)Delete the requirement that the content include information on
available counseling and resources for children who are
sexually abused.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Requires the course of study in grades 1-6, inclusive, to
include instruction in health, including instruction in the
principles and practices of individual, family, and community
health.
2)Requires, on or before March 1, 2008, the SBE to adopt content
standards in health education and specifies that school
districts are not required to follow the content standards.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, this bill will result in the following costs:
1)Standards development/revision: Likely minor, but potentially
significant costs to the California Department of Education
(CDE) to develop and include age-appropriate K-12 content in
sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in
the health content standards, during its next revision.
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2)Frameworks: Cost pressure to update the health frameworks to
include the new content standards, as specified.
COMMENTS : California curriculum is based on academic content
standards that are developed by the IQC (also referenced in
statute as the "commission") and approved by the SBE. The
frameworks, similarly developed by the IQC and approved by the
SBE, are guidelines for implementing these standards. To date,
the SBE has adopted academic content standards in career
technical education, English language arts and English language
development, health education, history and social science,
mathematics, model school library, physical education, science,
visual and performing arts, and world languages. These
standards define the knowledge, concepts, and skills that
students should acquire at each grade level within each subject
area. Each of the adopted content standards spans kindergarten
through grade 12, inclusive, with the exception of visual and
performing arts, which also includes prekindergarten.
According to the CDE, the Health Framework for California Public
Schools is scheduled to be revised in either 2017 or 2018.
However, there is no existing statutory authority for the SBE,
the IQC, or the SPI to revise the health content standards, nor
does this bill contain such authority. The language of this
bill says that the specified content shall be considered when
next revised, but does not provide the authority to revised the
health standards.
Analysis Prepared by : Jill Rice / ED. / (916) 319-2087
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